検索キーワード： エンターテインメント・舞台芸術

Brought to you by Penguin. If there's one thing that Joanne McNally knows it's that we may have smart phones, Prozac and Prosecco, but we're still just animals trying to survive. And in Femme Feral, she explores the chaos and exhilaration that results from following our basic instincts. Blending...

The complete series 27 of the popular impressions show, plus two Specials The popular topical comedy show is back with another helping of political vituperation, media mauling and celebrity savaging. So sit back and treat your ears to a bumper helping of superb satirical impressions from the...

In a long line of beloved books, Loud Pictures stands as Marc Spitz’s final project. This big, broad, noisy, and expansive exploration of art marries the two things Marc loved most—movies and rock and roll. In many ways, films can become imprinted on our brains because of their soundtracks.

In dieser Folge wird Casanova von seiner Leidenschaft genötigt, einer jungen Theologin den Hof zu machen, wobei sich bei einem Abendessen in Gesellschaft, an welchem religiöse Spezialfragen erörtert werden, herausstellt, dass die weibliche Gottesprofi weniger auf den Kopf gefallen ist als man annehmen könnte – für theologische Maßstäbe. Selbstverständlich bekommt Casanova noch, was er immer anstrebt, und als kleines Extra dazu eine charmante Freundin, mit welcher man als verständnisvolles Trio die Zeit zu genießen versteht.

Blending film criticism with creative nonfiction, each book in the Timecodes series focuses on one film, exploring it minute by minute beginning with minute one, and ending with the final minute before the closing credits. This book uses a close study of Dazed and Confused to tell three interrelated stories of adolescent development: the filmmaker's, the film's characters, and the author's own.

This concise study examines how western histories and practices of theatre have functioned to achieve their effects, through understanding dramaturgy as the arrangement or structure of the work in time and space – both at the fictional level and in relation to performance. Exploring the relationship between plays and their meaning in production, this guide focuses on how understanding dramaturgy is critical to understanding how plays achieve their effects.

Theatre and tourism are kindred practices. Both engage their patrons in experiences of temporary escape to distant places, times, or different lives. Both stage expressive, communicative, embodied encounters in real time and space. Tourism and theatre are both sites of public pedagogy, cultural diplomacy, and cosmopolitan consciousness, promising pleasure and knowledge from the spectacle of others and elsewheres.

Theatre and Race centers on the interrelationship of the words on either side of the ampersand. It offers an accessible overview of how race is performed and how western theatrical practice has wrestled with the topic, question, and "problem" of racial difference over centuries. This study introduces critical and theoretical concepts to account for how the simple act of being attentive to the seeming "otherness" of another person within the expressive arts, as well as in everyday life, invites an engagement with the social history and lived experience of race.

From the oral tradition of campfire tales to today's immersive, serialized audio dramas, the horror genre has found a natural home in the podcasting form. With its ability to tap into the listener's imagination and provoke visceral responses, podcasting has reinvigorated horror storytelling. This book traces the lineage of sound-based horror, examining the rise of hit shows like Welcome to Night Vale, The Black Tapes Podcast, A Scottish Podcast, and One by One, which adopt the serialized format popularized by true crime podcasting post-2014.

Die selbst verfasste Biografie des größten Frauenhelden und Herzensbrecher der alten Zeit erstaunt durch deren Natürlichkeit und Lebendigkeit im Schreibstil. Verwundert reibt man sich die Ohren über diesen europäischen Lebemann der Superlative. Als Sohn einer Schauspielerin, deren sterbliche Überreste damals noch auf den Kadaver-Sammelplätzen vor den Toren der Städte entsorgt wurden, legt dieser Künstlersohn eine Lebens-Karriere hin, die einem den Atem stocken lässt.

From Oxford lecturer in mathematics and math YouTuber Tom Crawford, a humorous, rigorous, and surprisingly profound dive into the math of popular culture How would an actuary price out the risk of Frodo Baggins’s journey to Mount Doom? How many calories must Charizard consume each day to keep...

A final gift from the great American director, writer, actor, producer, critic, and film historian, Peter Bogdanovich, a memoir based on intimate journals and charting his apprentice years leading up the making of his iconic, Oscar-nominated film, The Last Picture Show. Peter Bogdanovich liked...

In this book, she discusses running disabled-led Graeae theatre company for the past 30 years. She reveals her passionate and long-standing commitment to inclusivity and equality within the arts and how she and Graeae have made strides in the area, including the creative integration of sign language, captioning and audio description in performance.

Anne Baxter's life was a vibrant tapestry of remarkable talent, personal resilience, and enduring legacy still relevant today even 40 years after her death. By the 1940s and 50s, she had become one of Hollywood's most versatile actresses, delivering iconic performances in films like Guest in the House (1944), Yellow Sky (1948), The Razor's Edge (1946), All About Eve (1950) and The Ten Commandments (1954). Alongside her career, she had three marriages, raised three daughters, and endured periods as a single working mother while juggling the demands of Hollywood.

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A deep dive into Dawson’s Creek, “one of the biggest teen dramas of all time,” (Variety) full of never-before-heard stories and behind-the-scenes insight into fan-favorite characters, from one of the show's stars, Kerr Smith. Welcome back to Dawson’s Creek, where the banter is fast-paced...

Read by the authors and stars of the show! The actors who played Topanga, Shawn, and Eric on Boy Meets World expand on their hit podcast, Pod Meets World, in a nostalgic behind-the-scenes history of the much-loved 90s sitcom, featuring untold stories and never-before-seen photos. Boy Meets World...

Brought to you by Penguin. If Gollum, Caesar and Ulysses Klaue could hear Andy Serkis tell his story, would they choose him to play them? This is the question at the heart of his long-awaited memoir. Beginning in a childhood split between Ruislip and Baghdad, Andy Serkis takes us – and his...

Packed with never-before-heard stories and exclusive interviews with the cast, crew, producers, writers, directors, and creators, star Dean Norris—aka DEA Hank Schrader and Walter White’s brother-in-law—shares a definitive insider account of the iconic TV show Breaking Bad. The story of...

Pronunciation: kat-ee-wom-puhs Origin: Southern American English Positioned askew, crooked or out of alignment; not straight In disarray; turned sideways; off course A state of life in which plans have unraveled, expectations have shifted, and nothing is operating according to the original...